THE
MYTH
Odysseus and his companions were taken prisoners by the cyclops
Polyphemous, son of Poseidon, in a cave on his island. To escape,
Odysseus contrived to make Polyphemous drunk with wine. Having
put him in a stupor he and his shipmates smote the single eye
of the cyclops with a timber.

THE MATH
Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976)
Heisenberg elucidated the uncertainty principles of quantum
mechanics and, along with Schrodninger,
Planck and Dirac, slew the single vision of Newtonian classical
physics.